A company called popay in Belgium has built an open source tool that generates documentation for your HRMS/Payroll Setup. This tool also generates documentation for your Flexfield Setup and Alerts.

To explain in a few simple words:- launch a concurrent process that creates a file (an extract of the setup)- this file should then be opened with a free editor called treepad, which can be downloaded at (www.treepad.com ), which presents data in a folder structure.

What are the benefits of using this tool?- you don't need to document setup anymore and maintain changes to setup- your documentation becomes a tool : with the search functionality of treepad you can easily find answers .i.e. : if I change the payroll global value "Percentage Family Allowance", what fast formula's are affected.- You can compare differences between setups on two or more different instances.- Given that this tool is used by popay consulting for their internal projects, they are enhancing the tool more and more with further "project experience": - This tool will also indicate all elements that have a missing element Link.- the tool shows all user defined functions that are used within the fast formula-and much more , as this tool is enhanced ongoing basis